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Outage on octopus.com - report and learnings

Public incident report and our learnings about the octopus.com DNS disruption from January 25 – 26, 2023.

Taming the Kraken: How to protect your data

Learn how to keep your data safe when Octopus Deploy is deploying your database updates.

Tentacle versioning and when to update

Every time a new Octopus Server instance is released we also bump the Tentacle version. Here's why and what to do about it.

Why use Octopus for Kubernetes deployments?

Understanding the value that Octopus brings to your Kubernetes deployments.

Java CI/CD: Octopus, Jenkins, Java, Kubernetes, and the DevOps lifecycle

A blog series with practical examples on how Jenkins, Octopus, and Kubernetes fit into the DevOps lifecycle.

Java CI/CD: From release management to operations

In this post, we create example runbook to implement operations tasks.

Java CI/CD: From Continuous Integration to release management

In this post, we link up Jenkins and Octopus to form a CI/CD pipeline.

Java CI/CD: From Continuous Integration to Kubernetes deployments

In this post, we create a Kubernetes cluster in AWS.

Java CI/CD: From JAR to Docker

In this post, we learn how to convert a Java application to a Docker image.

Java CI/CD: From local build to Jenkins Continuous Integration

Learn how to build a Docker image with a central CI server.

Announcing Linux worker pools on Octopus Cloud

Octopus Cloud now supports Ubuntu worker pools and Windows 2019 worker pools.

Octopus 2020.4 now available

Octopus 2020.4 introduces better config file updates for Java, NodeJS, and Ruby, and adds built-in Worker Pools on Octopus Cloud for both Windows and Linux.

Spring configuration strategies across environments

Learn how Octopus helps you customize your Spring applications as they are deployed across multiple environments

Shaping Configuration as Code

We've been busy recently building Configuration as Code support for Octopus Deploy. Learn about some of the factors that shaped this feature.

New in 2.0: Library variable sets

Library variable sets are a new feature that let you share settings between projects

Automating Octopus with Azure Functions

Custom automation with Octopus and Azure Functions walkthrough.

Creating test Kubernetes clusters with Kind

Learn how to integrate a test cluster created with Kind with Octopus

New in 2.0: Configurable Dashboards

The Octopus dashboard can now be customized to include only the projects/environments that you care about

Public bug bounty program with Bugcrowd

At Octopus Deploy, we’ve been running a private bug bounty program with Bugcrowd for over 12 months now, and we’re pleased to make it public.

New in 2.0: Windows Service deployment

Octopus 2.0 can install and start Windows Services during deployment

Octopus August Release 3.16

This month's release includes Mono-less deployments to Linux and Mac, updated ScriptCS support, bug fixes and more.

Octopus Deploy sponsors the .NET Foundation

Octopus Deploy announces corporate sponsorship for the .NET Foundation

New in 2.0: Rolling Deployments

Rolling deployments allow you to control how many machines Octopus deploys to in parallel
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Documentation

Push package to built-in feed

An example script that pushes a package to the built-in feed.

Update tenant variables

An example script that updates tenant variables for a specific project template with a single value across each connected environment in Octopus using the REST API and Octopus.Client.

Use NGINX as a reverse proxy for Octopus Deploy

How to set up NGINX as a Reverse Proxy for Octopus Deploy

Check Tentacles for available upgrades

An example script to check targets and workers for available Tentacle upgrades.

Download package from built-in feed

An example script that downloads a package from the built-in feed.

Find library variable set variables usage

An example script that loads variables from a library variable set and finds usages in project variables, and optionally deployment processes and runbooks.

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